Eric Katz
Web Developer based in Columbus, OH.
WordCamp 2016
These are the slides used for Day 1 of Columbus Web Groups Weekend Workshop: WordPress 101 primarily for front end developers.
Want to get into the latest and greatest in Front End development for your WordPress websites? This presentation will talk about re-organizing your theme development process by streamlining your build process with Gulp (http://gulpjs) and beefing up your templates with Twig (via Timber http://upstatement.com/timber/). Will have some template comparisons and go over some best practices for Sass, JS coding style and using Twig.
Animations Presentation on SVG. Going through the process of designing for an animation and than also improving creative animations where possible. The presentation goes through animations best practices in SnapSVG and GSAP.
A presentation to go over modern PHP development practices, including introduction to object oriented PHP, Composer/Packagist.org and the rapid application development framework Laravel using LTS 5.1.
This presentation is all about beautiful ways to bring rich graphical content into your web projects with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG isn't the newest technology on the web but it's seeing a huge rise in popularity. Today, SVG adoption can be seen in almost every aspect of front end development. UX components like scalable icons, animated graphics, image filters, image clipping and data visualization can all be built utilizing SVG. This presentation will go on a journey through recent trends and popular use-cases of SVG and will maneuver through SVG implementation examples, brief structure analysis, ideal workflow, optimization and best practices. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inkv-D8NPSo
This presentation is in progress. Presented internally @ CardinalSolutions Front End Special Interest Group
Introduction to WordPress Plugin API and live coding implementation of connecting to an external API service (Amazon Products API).